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Shocking footage showed the moment a brawl broke out aboard a Jet2 flight from Antalya, Turkey to Manchester, UK, forcing an emergency landing in Belgium.
“Flight LS896 from Antalya to Manchester diverted to Brussels yesterday, due to the appalling behavior of two disruptive passengers,” airline reps told the Post. “They were both offloaded by police in Brussels and the flight continued to Manchester.”
Disturbing footage shows passengers exchanging blows in the aisle as onlookers swear, scream and plead with others not to “get involved.”
One “shaken up” fly-witness recounted the ugly incident, claiming that “what should have been a straightforward journey” devolved into one of the most “distressing experiences” they’d ever had, the Sun reported.
They claimed that an allegedly inebriated male passenger sitting behind them began “making racist remarks.” While they initially chose to ignore him, the passenger “escalated” his offensive tirade.
“Although he had been drinking on the flight, he was fully aware of his surroundings, knew exactly what he was saying, and was oriented throughout,” they recalled.
Things came to a head after the hellion was “unable to purchase cigarettes,” whereupon he grew aggressive toward crewmembers.
He then “became confrontational, intimidating, and openly racist towards the Pakistani passengers around him,” the traveler recalled.
Flight attendants tried to calm the bozo, but to no avail as he continued to act “hostile and aggressive,” eventually causing a brawl to erupt at 30,000 feet.
“At one point it became very physical,” the eyewitness recalled. “Passengers were distressed. People were frightened. The atmosphere turned chaotic.”
Following the pilot’s decision to divert to Brussels, the two unidentified troublemakers were escorted off by authorities, after which the flight continued onto its destination, landing at 10 p.m.
The miscreants have since been placed on the carrier’s no-fly list.
“We can confirm that the two disruptive passengers will be banned from flying with us for life,” a Jet2 spokesperson told the Post. “We will also vigorously pursue them to recover the costs that we incurred as a result of this diversion.”
They added, “As a family-friendly airline, we take a zero-tolerance approach to disruptive passenger behavior, and we are very sorry that other customers and our colleagues onboard had to experience this too.”
The eyewitness said the incident was an example of how “racism is still very real,” adding that it “has no place in our society.”
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